TRUE PERCEPTION - KNOWLEDGE

The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for
what He creates must be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in the
world you see that will endure forever. Some things will last in time a
little while longer than others. But the time will come when all things
visible will have an end.

The body's eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen,
for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality.
And so they do. For everything they see not only will not last, but lends
itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. While everything that God created is
forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.

Knowledge is not the remedy for false perception since, being another level,
they can never meet. The one correction possible for false perception must
be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it
comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names.
Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. They are
the one beginning, with the end to lead to oneness far beyond themselves.
True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does
not exist. And it is this that true perception sees.

The world stands like a block before Christ's face. But true perception
looks on it as nothing more than just a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that
it can last no longer than an instant. It is seen at last for only what it
is. And now it cannot fail to disappear, for now there is an empty place
made clean and ready. Where destruction was perceived the face of Christ
appears, and in that instant is the world forgot, with time forever ended as the
world spins into nothingness from where it came.

A world forgiven cannot last. It was the home of bodies. But
forgiveness looks past bodies. This is its holiness; this is how it heals.
The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin
possible. From sin comes guilt as surely as forgiveness takes all guilt
away. And once all guilt is gone what more remains to keep a separated
world in place? For place has gone as well, along with time. Only
the body makes the world seem real, for being separate it could not remain where
separation is impossible. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees
it not. And what you then will overlook will not be understandable to you,
just as its presence once had been your certainty.

This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen
within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear. For there the altar to
the Son is set, and there his Father is remembered. Here are all illusions
brought to truth and laid upon the altar. What is seen outside must lie
beyond forgiveness, for it seems to be forever sinful. Where is hope while
sin is seen as outside? What remedy can guilt expect? But seen
within your mind, guilt and forgiveness for an instant lie together, side by
side, upon one altar. There at last are sickness and its single remedy
joined in one healing brightness. God has come to claim His Own. Forgiveness is complete.

And now God's knowledge, changeless, certain, pure and wholly understandable,
enters its kingdom. Gone is perception, false and true alike. Gone
is forgiveness, for its task is done. And gone are bodies in the blazing
light upon the altar to the Son of God. God knows it is His Own, as it is
his. And here They join, for here the face of Christ has shone away time's
final instant, and now is the last perception of the world without a purpose and
without a cause. For where God's memory has come at last there is no
journey, no belief in sin, no walls, no bodies, and the grim appeal of guilt and
death is there snuffed out forever.

O my brothers, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you
safe and pure and lovely in the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him
where His altar is. Hallowed your Name and His, for they are joined here
in this holy place. Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of
illusions into holiness; out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear and
given back to love.